dependent state
Example Sentences
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It was hard, she said, to shake off the dependent state of being a prisoner.
From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2011
Their dependent state was an unnatural state, and when the reaction came, the torrent swept all before it.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 Creator by Various
It does not, however, follow from this account, that there are no poor Quakers, or that members of this society are not born in a dependent state.
From A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 2 by Clarkson, Thomas
Sir R. Charles, Charles, these sentiments but ill become the dependent state in which Fortune has placed you.
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)
He points out the dependent state of his country in Europe, and asks: 'What is Portugal?'
From The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters by Bowen, Sue Petigru
